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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Second language speech"”.
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Second-Language Speech Learning: An Investigation of Auditory Word Priming
… involved in the processing and learning of L2 speech. These findings also indicated that the extent of this involvement depends upon the nature of spoken L2 input and the processing demands imposed on the learner by a learning task.
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACOUSTIC FEATURES OF SECOND LANGUAGE SPEECH AND LISTENER EVALUATION OF SPEECH QUALITY
Second language (L2) speech is typically less fluent than native speech, and differs from it phonetically. While the speech of some L2 English speakers seems to be easily understood by native listeners despite the presence of a foreign accent, other L2 speech seems to be more demanding, such that …
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The Influence of Age, Experience and Native -Language Phonology on Second-Language Speech Perception and Production
Next, to test the claim that judgments of cross-language similarity predict L2 perception/production abilities for children and adults alike, in Experiments 2 and 3 both the beginning and advanced Korean-English bilinguals performed English vowel discrimination and production tasks. Results …
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The role of first and second language speech rhythm in syntactic ambiguity processing and musical rhythmic aptitude
… experiences, such as body movement, music and speech. In speech, rhythm groups auditory events, e.g., sounds and pauses, together into words, making their boundaries acoustically prominent and aiding word segmentation and recognition by the hearer. After word recognition, the hearer is able to …
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Exploring Perceptions of Second Language Speech Fluency Through Developing and Piloting a Rating Scale for a Paired Conversational Task
Much research has explored how perceptions of speech fluency are influenced by a variety of temporal speech features (e.g. speech rate). However, less is known about the influence of non-temporal and conversational speech characteristics, as well as listener characteristics such as accent …
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Effects of Visual Feedback on the Production and Perception of Second Language Speech Sounds : A Comparison of Articulatory and Auditory Instruction
A fundamental issue in speech science concerns the extent to which speech sounds are mentally represented by articulatory-motor and/or auditory-acoustic features. This dissertation aims to expand upon the current literature by investigating changes in production and perception following visual …
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ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
… most natural and intelligible in his or her second language, the speaker must acquire proper prosody, such as native-like speech rhythms (Tajima et al., 1997; Wenk, 1985; Wennerstrom, 2001). This dissertation investigates how native English and Spanish ESL (English as a Second Language) …
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Effects of Prosody-Based Instruction and Self-Assessment in L2 Speech Development
… on the prosodic and global aspects of L2 speech by Japanese EFL learners using a pre-post design. In addition, native English speaking (NS) and non-native English speaking (NNS) raters with high levels of English proficiency were compared to examine the influence of raters’ L1 backgrounds …
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Invitations in American English and Mandarin Chinese
With the flourishing of speech act theory in the field of pragmatics, many researchers have endeavored to compare and contrast different speech act realizations either in one culture or across cultures. To date, much of cross-cultural speech act study has been focused on requests, apologies, and …